Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.
BENITO MUSSOLINILiberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.
BENITO MUSSOLINIFascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
BENITO MUSSOLINIOn the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results.
BENITO MUSSOLINII have been a racist since 1921. I don’t know how they can think I’m imitating Hitler.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWe deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.
BENITO MUSSOLINISocialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
BENITO MUSSOLINII should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.
BENITO MUSSOLINIState ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThree cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy’s war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
BENITO MUSSOLINIYouth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.
BENITO MUSSOLININational pride has no need of the delirium of race.
BENITO MUSSOLINIEvery anarchist is a baffled dictator.
BENITO MUSSOLINILiberty is a duty, not a right.
BENITO MUSSOLINIDemocratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.
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